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Bent on pulverizing Short-stemmed Slippery Jack’s bad rap

March 7, 2013 Erica M. Davis 12 Comments

Lately I’ve been powdering my dried wild mushrooms, batch after batch and species after species, then attempting to use the powders in various kitchen concoctions. First were the porcini (Boletus edulis), from which I made a divine sauce, followed by not-so-bad hawks wings … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, slippery jack Colorado, Denver, flowers, foraging, mushroom, nettles, recipes, Rocky Mountains, short-stemmed slippery jacks, slipper jacks, Suillus brevipes, yucca

Wild shopping spree: Denver

April 7, 2012 Erica M. Davis 7 Comments

Try as I might to remember, I almost always forget my shopping bags when I go to the grocery store. I rarely forget them, however, when I go into the wild. It’s a good thing too, because Friday’s foray among the wild former farmlands of Denver’s outskirts was a shopping trip … [Read more...]

edible, spring cattail, Colorado, Denver, dock, foraging, mushroom, musk mustard, nettles, oyster mushroom, thistle, urban foraging

Tale of a Golden Foraging Opportunity

July 22, 2011 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Forager on a Golden hillside. Photo by Gregg Davis.

On our way home from Denver last Friday, Gregg and I made a detour up Golden Gate Canyon Road to check out a 93-acre ranch that Marilyn, who I met when she commented on a post, invited us to forage. (Actually, truth be told, I invited myself and she was generous enough to … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, medicinal Colorado, cow parsnip, currants, Denver, foraging, Front Range, Golden, goosefoot, lamb's quarters, mustard, nettles, pennycress, plantain, purslane, recipes, Rocky Mountains, sticky gumweed, stinging nettles, tansy mustard, thistle

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Fall foraging

Oregon grape delight

Wild seed drink

Quickweed greens

The delicious ‘wild wonderberry’

Three pennycress mustard recipes

Land caviar from kochia seeds

Fruity sipping vinegars

Wild tarragon in the weeds

Sprouted goosefoot flour

Book reviews

Samuel Thayer’s ‘Incredible Wild Edibles’

Hank Shaw’s ‘Buck, Buck, Moose’

Katrina Blair’s ‘Wild Wisdom of Weeds’

Thomas Elpel’s ‘Foraging the Mountain West’

Dina Falconi’s ‘Foraging & Feasting’

Ellen Zachos’ ‘Backyard Foraging’

Rebecca Lerner’s ‘Dandelion Hunter’

John Kallas’ ‘Edible Wild Plants’

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